I learnt that scheduling weekly calls with a friend is useful for preserving one’s sanity, but similarly beneficial is the intermittent sharing of amusing cat memes.
Tag: relationships
Nice To Meet You, I’m A Slut!: How To Be Single (And Happy)
The more we normalise being single, the less embarrassed we will feel when we ask for a table for one. I want that for the future; a world where we can exist as individuals as opposed to in pairs.
For The Love Of Acapella: “Take It And Run”
I tried to remember the last time I’d run into an open body of water, or danced at a club, or sung a pop song, without a layer of self-irony undermining the sincerity of it all, without the need to let people know that “it was obviously a joke” through exaggerated body language or an overly accentuated Cher impression. I, in my anxious, sarcastic, self-parodying state, have never been and never will be the kind of person to “take it and run.”
For The Love Of GRINDR: Accept My Friend Request
You see him around Oxford a few times. You smile. He looks at you awkwardly, gives you a stiff nod and later sends you a “You up?” message on Grindr at 2am. You down a can of G&T, dowse yourself in Febreze and head over to his place.
I’m A Female Classicist, Get Me Out Of Here!: Dating Disasters
Never in my 19 years on planet Earth have I come across as great a drama queen as Catullus. One minute he’s head over heels in love, the next minute he’s shouting ‘she belong to the streets,’ and the next he’s begging her for affection.
Sex and Social Distancing: What Can We Learn From The Netherlands?
As if 2020 couldn’t feel more like a prolonged fever dream, the Dutch government has advised single people to find “sex buddies” as part of their “intelligent” lockdown.
The Five Stages of (Lockdown Breakup) Grief
Sasha Mills talks us through the shitshow that is working through the five stages of a lockdown break up.
Nice to Meet You, I’m a Slut! On Pause
It can be far too easy to switch off and forget about current affairs under lockdown, especially if, like me, you live in a small town far from all the action. There is so much going on right…
Q&A: OxMatch
With so many of these services out there, we decided to ask some questions of our own so that you can decide whether OxMatch is a match for you.
Love Letters: A Dying Art?
I’m drawn towards the sincerity of the handwritten sentiment, be that loving or loathing, and the fragility of the material article, its capacity to be lost and found in life’s flotsam and jetsam, rather than the text which loiters in cyberspace.